Eva Mitchell Knihy

Rodinné a pracovní starty jsou v sociologii součástí procesu přijetí sociálních rolí spojených se statusem dospělého, známého jako přechod do dospělosti. Zatímco některým tranzicím, jako je vstup do prvního partnerského soužití či rodičovství, byla věnována velká pozornost, další témata zůstávala opomíjena. Publikace se zaměřuje na počátky pracovních a rodinných drah mladých mužů a žen a usiluje o přispění k diskusi o de-standardizaci životních drah a rostoucí nestabilitě pracovních drah. Čerpá z kvantitativních výzkumů v České republice a mezinárodních projektů, stejně jako z kvalitativních dat a sofistikovaných statistických metod. V monografii se zkoumá, zda v průběhu 90. let vzrostla nestabilita pracovních drah, a zda jsou rodinné situace dnešních mladých lidí rozmanitější než u těch, kteří dospěli před rokem 1989. Dále se analyzují důvody přijetí nestandardních rodinných drah, měnící se představy o sociální definici dospělosti a ideálním časování narození prvního dítěte. Kniha se také zabývá tím, jak český sociální stát podporuje rodiče malých dětí v návratu do zaměstnání a zda je od práce odrazuje, a jak si Česká republika stojí v mezinárodním srovnání.

Práce sleduje, jak evropské státy finančně podporují rodiny s dětmi a jak se tato podpora odráží na životní úrovni různých typů rodin. Monografie se soustředí na Českou republiku a další země střední a východní Evropy.

Life is always looking for ways to screw you over. Scott McDermott survived the foster care system and knows better than to let anyone close, but Liam Walsh is his one vulnerability. Twice Scott let down his guard, and twice Liam vanished from Scott's life. So when Scott comes face-to-face with Liam for the first time in six years, he punches Liam in the nose. Only after Scott's friend--and Baltimore County police officer--Jamie reads him the riot act does Scott discover that in the intervening years Liam has been to war and lost his leg. Liam hasn't had the easiest life either. He took care of his drug-addicted mom when she was unable to take care of herself. He's fallen in love with Scott twice, but when Liam saw Scott going down the same path as his mother, he left. The lesson that he can't save everyone has been a painful one for Liam to learn. Maybe what he and Scott had can't ever be fixed. Scott and Liam have never fallen out of love--which becomes obvious when they start working together--but what will make this time any different from all the others? Will the third time really be a charm?

A brand new DS Thoroughgood thriller from Award Nominated crime fiction author RJ Mitchell. Set in Glasgow in 1990, The Blood Acre follows DS Angus Thoroughgood as he explores a tangled web of lies, deceit within a corrupt police force leading him to uncover an explosive terrorist plot and a fabled piece of Glasgow criminal folklore.

Causing trouble has never been more fun. Eli Wright doesn't follow anyone's rules. When he was seventeen, his parents threw him out of the house for being gay. He's been making his own way for the past five years and he's not about to change himself for anyone's expectations. For now, romance can wait. There are plenty of hot guys to keep him entertained until he finds someone special. Quinn Maloney kept the peace and his closeted boyfriend's secrets for ten years. One morning he got a hell of a wake-up along with his coffee. Not only did the boyfriend cheat on him, but he's marrying the girl he knocked up. Inviting Quinn to the baby's baptism is the last straw. Quinn's had enough of gritting his teeth to play nice. His former boyfriend is in for a rude awakening, because Quinn's not going to sit quietly on the sidelines. In fact, he has the perfect scheme, and he just needs to convince the much younger, eyeliner-wearing guy who winks at him in a bar to help him out. Eli's deception is a little too good, and soon he has everyone believing they're madly in love. In fact, he's almost got Quinn believing it himself....

"The links between archaeology and the Bible have fascinated generations of scholars who seek documentation of events narrated in the Bible. The British Museum's collections include numerous inscriptions, pictorial reliefs and other objects which provide such evidence." "For this book the author has selected seventy-two such 'documents', mainly from Western Asia, with some examples included from Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor, dating from the period of the Patriarchs to the New Testament times, c. 2000 BC to c. AD 100. He transliterates and translates extracts from the ancient texts, which include Cuneiform, Aramaic and Hebrew, and discusses the contribution they make to our knowledge of the culture and history of biblical times. The Bible in the British Museum is a sourcebook for all students of the Bible and the ancient Near East."--BOOK JACKET

PARALLEL LINES is the story of a deadly rivalry on both sides of the law. With criminal rival and would be underworld kingpin Declan Meehan on the verge of controlling Glasgow's lucrative illegal drug trade, Detective Sergeant Angus Thoroughgood vows to bring him down.